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- 7131: James Fenimore Cooper
- ... The Last of the Mohicans written in 1826, quickly became the most widely read work of the day, solidifying Cooper's popularity in the U.S. and in Europe. Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the massacre of the colonial garrison at Fort William Henry and a fictional kidnapping of two pioneer sisters. Cooper knew few Indians, so he drew on a Moravian missionary ...
- 7132: Les Miserables
- ... view about the revolution; Cassette and mariuses leaving each other; Eponine's loss of Marius; Valjean looking forward to the battle; and the Thenardiers dreaming of the riches they will take from the chaos of war. The students have now built their barricade and Marius noticing that Eponine has joined the revolt sends her with a letter to Cossette which is intercepted by Valjean. When Valjean realizes how much the two ...
- 7133: Hamlet: Revenge: Once An Honor, Now A Crime
- ... All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be nothing at all.” Isaiah 41:11, 12 Thesis - Revenge: an act that has been used since the beginning of time in order to inflict punishment upon one who has wronged another ...
- 7134: Julius Caesar
- ... Catherine of Aragon, restored the Roman Catholic church and married her cousin, Philip II of Spain. She burned almost 300 Protestants, which made the people hate her and Rome, however, and her marriage led to war with France and the loss of Calais. This proved to be a serious period of political unrest in England, much like Rome was before the reign of Caesar. Then, in November of 1558, Bloody Mary ...
- 7135: The Grapes of Wrath: Movie Review
- ... such as soil conservation, flood control, and protection of forests and wildlife. These men were provided with food, lodging, and other necessities, and were given a small monthly salary. Another program was the CWA, the civil works administration. It employed more then 4 million workers to build and repair roads, and teach in schools, were just a couple of the jobs. Some of these programs would work temporarily, but eventually there ...
- 7136: Shakespeare's Sonnets: Time and Decay
- ... out with beauty and then time and decay cause it to slowly wither away to old age and death. In the last couplet of the sonnet, Shakespeare gives his friend a way to win the war with time and decay and implant his beauty again. The way offers this is to be featured in his poetry. What better way to “live on” then to be read about for centuries? The cycle ...
- 7137: Native American Art
- ... used for their art. These hides, and most other objects were embroidered with quills and beads. Men painted tribal histories of myths, hunts, and battles on the hides, as well as on tipi covers and war shields. Pipe art, carved of Catlinite, a blood colored rock is specific to the Plains people. Pictorial calendar art was developed by the people of the plains, which would depict a year by a notable ...
- 7138: “Love Story”
- ... Keal, The New Yorker, 1970). “Love Story”, like “Titanic came at a time when people were hungry for a tragic romance. It was the beginning of a new decade, and the near end of a war. It appealed to an emotional nerve in everyone. “Love Story” was also one of the many movies that later became a novel. “The novelization of a movie of a movie is a new sub-literary ...
- 7139: The Lottery
- ... that state lotteries are allowed to advertise whatever they want without fear of prosecution. So if any one ever wished to pursue action against the lottery they would have to take their case through a civil court which would require using their own money and they themselves would be tied up in courts for years. Most people do not have the money or the time to pursue justice in the case ...
- 7140: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... language. Sartre Sartre first gave the term existentialism general currency by using it for his own philosophy and by becoming the leading figure of a distinct movement in France that became internationally influential after World War II. Sartre's philosophy is explicitly atheistic and pessimistic; he declared that human beings require a rational basis for their lives but are unable to achieve one, and thus human life is a “futile passion ...
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